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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: R.I.P Bambi Edition
« on: August 04, 2013, 03:08:58 pm »Hold the phone, Frumple. The phrase "Think of the children" has historically been used to mean "we can't let our children be exposed to X because of Y". In this case, "think of the children" means "Let's stop enabling the sexual abuse of children". Entirely different things and I'm all for the second one.Sorry, nothing is going to make a good case against law enforcement agencies prosecuting those who either abuse or enable the abuse of children.Yup. "Think of the children" has pretty consistently been a major rallying call for people trying to (and occasionally succeeding) utterly fuck over any right to privacy anyone once had, as well as wedge one for prying open legal protections against censorship. Even (sometimes especially) when the shit they're trying to pull would have absolutely zero effect on the rate of child predation.
Gets hard t'try to keep the laws from going dystopian when the ones pushing 'em that way have a way to turn off most of the population's brains with a single sentence
